John wabd jones



2 Sheets-Sheet 1. J. JONES.

HEEL MACHINE.

Patented Nov. 16', 1886.

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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2. J. W. JONES.

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Nrrn- STATES JOHN. \VARD JONES,

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l-IEEL-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,649, dated November 16, 1886.

Application tiled June 11, 1886. Serial No. 204.832. (No model.) Iatcnted in England March 23,1885, No. 3,728; in France December :23, 1885, No, 173,098, and in Belgium December 24, 1%85, No. 71,374.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN WARD JoNEs, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at 78 Ambler Road, Finsbury Park, in the county of Middlesex, England, boot and shoe manufacturer, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for the Manufacture of Parts of Heels for Boots and Shoes,

(for which I have received Letters Patent in Great Britain,No. 3, 728, dated March 23, 1885; in France, No. 173,098, dated December 23, 1885, and in Belgium, No. 71,874, dated December 24, 1885,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of machines -for manufacturing what are called the risers of boot and shoe heels, in which the necessary number of pieces of leather to form a heel or riser are put into a receptacle having in its bottom holes, in which are placed the nails by which to secure the said pieces together, and the pieces of leather are so pressed down by a follower upon the so-placed nails as to cause the nails to be forced into place, and by which the operation of inserting the nails through the leather is efiected.

Figure l is an elevation of the principal portions of a machine embodying my invention, the principal parts of which constituting my inventionbeing in section. Fig. 2 repre sents, on a larger scale than Fig. 1, an elevation and a central section of the principal parts of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures. v

A b D designate the principal parts of the framing of the machine, consisting of standards D, a bed-plate, b, and a bridge-piece, A, resembling the corresponding parts of an ordinary screw-press. Directly under the screw B, which resembles that of an ordinary screwpress and screws through the bridge-piece A, there is firmly secured to the bed-plate b an upright block, a, which is preferably of cylindrical form, and has its axis in line with the axis of the screw B. To the exterior of this block is fitted the hollow die a, which is capable of sliding vertically thereon. In the head of this die is a recess, (0*, to form a receptacle for the pieces of leather of which the heel or riser is to be made, the said recess being of circular or other form in its horizontal profile, according to the shape of the heel or riser;' and below this recess there are provided in the said head, holes a, for the reception of the nails by which the several pieces are to be secured together, the said holes being made right through the head and receiving a corresponding number of upright punches or naildrivers, a which are supported on the stationary block a. These punches are repre- '6 5 sented as all screwed into a plate, a, which is placed on the top of the block awit-hin the die. The die ais confined to the block a by screws a passing through vertical slots in the sides of the die and screwing into the said block, the said slots being long enough to permit the requisite upward and downward movement of the die. A spiral spring, a is coiled around the part of the block below the die (6 between a flange or shoulder on the said block and the 7 bottom of the die for the purpose of pressing the die upward. The head of the die, the plate rd, and the block a are bored centrally for the reception of a plunger, d, the purpose of which is to expel the nailed heel-risers from the recess a in the die, the said plunger having a head which is countersunk into the head of the die at the bottom of the receptacle afi".

To the lower end of the'screw B there is secured the follower c, which is of a form corresponding with that of the receptacle a and of a size to enter them.

Under the plunger (Z there is fitted to the central bore of the dice a secondary plunger,

e, which passes through an opening in the rod e to be operated by a treadle, and the said plunger 6 has connected with it a counterbalance-lever, c.

The pieces of leather for forming the heelrisers having been previously cut by any suitable machine or tool, the first operation necessary in the production of a heel-riser is to place in the holes a, above the punches or drivers a the necessary number of nails, which will stand upright therein. The necessary number of pieces of leather to form the riser are then placed one above another in the receptaclecfi. The pressscrew B is then screwed down to cause the follower cto press upon the pieces of leather in the receptacle a* of the die a, and by means of the pressure so applied the leather and the die are driven downward with such force that the nails supported in the holes (0 by the punches or drivers of are forced into the leather, and the several pieces thereby secured together, the spring a in the meantime yielding to the movement of the die and-beingcompressed. Whenthefollower is raised by turning back the screw, the die a is caused by the spring a, to rise with the finished heel or riser in the receptacle 00*, from which it is discharged by means of the plunger d, actuated by the rod 6 and secondary plunger 0. i

The plaei ngof the nails in the holes a may be done singly by hand, but preferably by a suitable holder, in which they are all placed in proper position.

What I claim as my invention is The combination of the centrally-bored fixed block a, the hollow die a, fitted to slide upon the exterior of said block and containing re eeptacles for leather and nails, the nail-drivers JOHN \VARD JONES.

Witnesses:

. JOHN G. TONGUE,

WALTER J. SKERTEN. 

